Improving the screening of blood donors with syphilis rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and rapid plasma reagin (RPR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC)-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Improving the screening of blood donors with syphilis rapid diagnostic test (RDT) and rapid plasma reagin (RPR) in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC)

Published:2016-10-10 Issue:1 Volume:27 Page:52-59
ISSN:0958-7578
Container-title:Transfusion Medicine
language:en
Short-container-title:Transfusion Med

Author:

Sarkodie F.¹²,Hassall O.²,Owusu-Dabo E.³⁴,Owusu-Ofori S.¹,Bates I.²,Bygbjerg I. C.⁵,Owusu-Ofori A.⁶,Harritshøj L. H.⁷,Ullum H.⁷

Affiliation:

1. Transfusion Medicine Unit; Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital; Kumasi Ghana

2. Faculty of Health and Life Sciences; Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; Liverpool UK

3. School of Public Health; School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Kumasi Ghana

4. Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Kumasi Ghana

5. Department of Public Health; University of Copenhagen; Copenhagen Denmark

6. Department of Clinical Microbiology Kumasi; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology; Kumasi Ghana

7. Department of Clinical Immunology; Copenhagen University Hospital; Copenhagen Denmark

Publisher

Wiley

Subject

Hematology

Link

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/tme.12363/fullpdf

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